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Mod 4- Value and Color Wheel

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1. Creating the value scale and color wheel were not difficult at all, and were oddly satisfying. It helps you further understand how colors, hues and shades are made when you work with mixing paint yourself, and working through each pencil by softness. 2. I enjoyed working with the acrylic paint the most because it really is easy to use. It’s simple, it blends quickly and you get to created beautiful color; outside of my warm gray mix of all colors. I don’t really get to use acrylic and it made me think that I should pick it back up. 3. The most important part about making these is that you pay attention to what your doing. It is easy to make something too dark, or add too much magenta to the yellow. It’s realizing that you have to be patient and learn from how the colors form and how the shades change. Sometimes it helps to take a step back too. 4. In “Value Step Scales using Graphite Pencil (Otis College)” the pencils were shaved with a box cutter in order to

Elements and Principles Slideshow

To interpret the fourteen elements and principles, I first mapped out ideas of what to photograph for each one individually. For example, I wrote “wire, fence, electric lines” for line, and “shirts, brick tiling, scales, carpet” for pattern. I then went through Buffalo during my free time and photographed more than I needed to, and chose the photographs that best represented each one. Here’s what I came up with: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_Sbu83TGIPWkOYpBF4p4KbQwIaRopUgrWGNlkrg4XFQ/edit?usp=sharing

Module 3- Color Theory and Emotions

1. Color is an important tool our brain uses to decipher objects, and their importance or use. Color is formed by light waves that have been reflected off forms; causing us to see the light waves that were not absorbed. An object appearing blue has absorbed all light waves except for blue. Each color has its own wavelength; warmer colors have longer wavelengths and cooler, shorter. Because of this each color has a different effect on our perception. Colors affect our emotions as well. Red generally produces forms of arousal; both anxiety and hunger can be stimulated through the color red. Colors that appear softer or lighter generally calm the viewer, while bold colors evoke higher energy and stronger emotions. 2. The theory that colors can make time seem to change interests me greatly. It makes me wonder if there are better lighting systems to live in, ones that will make the day seem longer or shorter. It also makes me wonder why we have white light; outside of understanding how

Module 2 Homework- Article and Videos

1. The article, "What the brain draws from: Art and neuroscience," by Elizabeth Landau of CNN, explains that humans can identify representational art as what it is drawn to be. It explains that we recognize faces where there are none, because we are programmed to. Landau further explained that humans understand line drawings on two dimensional surfaces as representing a three dimensional object. The article also stated our recognition of colors, and their ability to deepen an image in terms of value and space. The last concept the article discussed was symmetry, and our visual demand for it. The first video, " Aesthetics: Philosophy of the Arts" explains that, al though art in itself is not practical, we value art because of its beauty. This idea of beauty is a construct of the value we give art, based on visual attributes; including symmetry, harmony and order. It states that art is subjective, and can be viewed as a representation of an idea, or it can be